The time of the year is slowly but steadily coming again for the noctilucent clouds. It's practically impossible to forecast them, so whenever you hear the media talking about them coming someday soon, please know they're talking out of their arse. But I sure hope we'll get another couple of displays this year, like the one I had the pleasure of witnessing at the Zaanse Schans 30th of June last year.

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Don't ask me why, but I always had a photographic soft spot for street splits. Zutphen definitely had some nice ones, but I think this is my favourite.

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
30 seconds, F/9, ISO 100
24th of January 2026, 17:38 CET

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Foggy evening in Broek in Waterland. Normally it's dark enough over here at night as it is, but it at the very least felt even darker in the fog. At least that makes for a nice spooky effect on the photo. 😁

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
120 seconds (no, that's not a typo, this really is the result of a 2 minute shutter time), F/9, ISO 100
18th of January 2026, 20:42 CET

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Checking out a city gate dating back to the 14th century, never a bad idea on a photo walk. 😊

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
15 seconds, F/9, ISO 100
24th of January 2026, 17:29 CET

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I love foggy evenings like the one we had, some two weeks ago. 😁

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
37 seconds, F/9, ISO 100
18th of January 2026, 19:12 CET

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That you're meeting up with photo friends in the Amsterdam city center after work for a sunset photo idea. The sunset ended up being rubbish, but we had fun nevertheless.

Then I was walking back to Amsterdam Centraal station when I passed this spot. I have photographed it several times before already, but every time I walk by here, I can't resist. 😅

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
25 seconds, f/10, ISO 100
20th of January 2026, 17:34 CET

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Before last Saturday, I had been in the city of Zutphen once before.

Back on that first visit, I stumbled upon this location, with these beautiful old buildings in the foreground and the Drogenapstoren in the background. However I couldn't do much with it photographically as you're facing the south, thus getting a lot of backlight. So I knew I could realistically only make this work either during the day on a cloudy day, or during nighttime.

This ended up being the driver for the photowalk I ended up doing last Saturday, and what better way to go full circle than to share that moment with some good friends?

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
30 seconds, F/8, ISO 100
24th of January 2026, 17:45 CET

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Some people from the photo club and I went to the city of Zutphen for a photo walk last Saturday, which was a great meetup as per usual. :)

I didn't quite have this location in mind for during the evening, this is typically more a daytime location as it clearly gets pretty dark here, however the humidity in the air and a few pretty powerful spotlights on the Sint-Walburgis church made this a spot I couldn't resist to stop by and take my time for this one.

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
103 seconds, F/9, ISO 100
24th of January 2026, 18:09

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People by now are probably starting to get sick and tired of it, so let me add to the sickness and fatigue with another northern lights photo. 😜

The composition of this photo isn't great. The lens that I used wasn't wide angle enough to put more of especially the cheese farm on the right on the photo better, and I couldn't quite choose between the windmills and the cheese farm either.

Under normal circumstances, I more than likely would have thrown this photo away. But the northern lights change everything. 😅

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
30 seconds, F/5, ISO 400
19th of January 2026, 22:37 CET

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Right, I'm a bit late to the party, but here's one photo of this little obscure event that happened in the sky over here last Monday... 😉

But seriously, much like the night of the 10th to the 11th of May 2024, and to somewhat of a lesser extent the evening of the 10th of October 2024, the evening of the 19th of January 2026 is one I'm going to remember for a long time. 🙂

Sony A73, Sony FE 24-105mm lens
75 seconds (yes, actually too long for the northern lights, but I'm not too bothered by it 😉 ), F/5, ISO 400
19th of January 2026, 22:19 CET

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